we went to austin for the weekend to help celebrate ellaiden's 2nd birthday. we were very busy all weekend. grocery shopping for the food, cleaning house, planting flowers outside, cleaning up and setting up the patio for the party, preparing veg and fruit trays - and the weather was perfect! there were around 35 people - friends from chris and jenny's church (mosaic/austin - don't know how to make this a link but you can check it out online) and friends chris went to high school with who we have known for as long. the whole thing was outside and there were lots of little kids running around. (i'll post pictures later).we brought ellaiden back with us for the week to give chris and jenny a much-needed break (e is 2 and soren is 7 months); evidently this is common practice for grandparents because we learned that lauren bagwell dietz's mother-in-law brought braxton back to austin from north carolina and then flew back with him to get him home and turned around and flew back by herself to austin. sounds familiar :) we got back from austin tonight around 6:30. ellaiden was supposed to take a nap before we left but didn't so we thought she would in the car but she didn't. she watched a winnie the pooh movie and a backyardigans movie AND part of an elmo movie - close to home she ate some ham and a bowl of vegetables, some goldfish and a cup of milk. she was GREAT!!
when we got here she walked right into the playroom and checked out her bed and the toys. i put away alyssa's doll house furniture that we bought when we lived in pennsylvania when she was 10 years old; i bought some inexpensive furniture and dolls at hobby lobby for the grandchildren to play with. ellaiden immediately sat down on the floor and rearranged the furniture. she was pretty tired after a bath and after one story, she was yawning and about to fall asleep snugged up in dora and diego bedding.
even though tonight there is a frost warning (go figure) the day-time temps are supposed to be in the mid-70's so we hope to make it to the park and church playground this week. ellaiden plays hard and is a good sleeper so i think the week will go by really fast.
i told her parents we would keep her as long as they wanted us to. maybe til she is 4! :)
4 comments:
She is precious! I'm sure you are an incredible grandma!:-) Hope you enjoy her stay!
it was great seeing you this weekend...as always. margaritas are overdue...
let us know if you are in town this weekend bringing ellaiden back...fern will be hosting my mom and 3 friends...i'm taking them out for shopping and dinner friday night. please join if you can!
Hope you are having a great time! We took Soren last night. No sleeping, like Ellaiden, and she fell in love with Boomer! She's his new best friend, too. I'll send you the pictures when I get them downloaded.
brooke: i don't know if we'll be back - i would in a minute but we may trade half-way and/or c and j may want a quiet weekend in austin after last weekend's party. oh how i wish we lived there - i keep thinking even if c and j ended up moving away, we would still have so many friends and "family" there.
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